Date: May 28, 2022 Time: 1pm (EST)
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As part of the 2022 African Liberation Day celebration, the Global Pan African Movement (GPAM) will host a discussion to examine the current prospects of Pan African solidarity and the unification of African peoples. With the acknowledgement that the question of full independence has not been totally achieved, our African Liberation Day celebration intends to serve as a critical effort to educate, motivate, and mobilize our people. The collective struggle of African peoples on the continent and in the wider African world demand that we highlight the past victories while being humble about the challenges ahead.
The discussion will highlight important lessons from the intentionality, grassroots efforts, overarching collectivism and Pan African solidarity against colonialism and neocolonialism that can be adapted from the 20th century struggles to the current context. During that era, foremost Pan Africanist and former president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, asserted that the breaking down of colonial borders and the unification of Africa is “an inescapable desideratum” if the continent is to undergo complete political and economic liberation.
More than half a century later, the project to strengthen Pan African solidarity and unify African peoples for the total liberation of Africans everywhere remains an unfinished business, facing critical economic, social, political, and climate-related challenges. While focused on these short-term challenges, one may be pessimistic about the possibility of strengthening Pan African solidarity and the unification of the peoples. But on a closer examination of these challenges there are embedded opportunities that reinforce the need to unite African peoples, not just governments, for the economic transformation of the continent and liberation of all the peoples.
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